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[House  op  Represeitatives,  No.  279.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRF8ENTATIVES,  December  13, 1864.— Read 
first  and  Recond  time?,  placed  on  the  Calendar  and  ordered  to  be 
printed. 

[By  Mr.  Boyce,  from  Coaniittce  on  Naval  Affairs.] 


^  BILL 

To  provide  for  the  transfer  of  certain  mechanics,  artizans  and  other 
persons,  from  the  army  to  the  navy. 

1  Section  1.     Tht  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 

2  do  enod,  That  the  mechanics,  artizans  and  other  experts,  indi.s- 

3  pensa))le  for  the  construction  of  vessels  and  machinery  for  the 

4  same,  ihe  manufacture  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  and 

5  in  preparing  and  forwarding  supplies  for  the  navy,  detailed  from 
i\  t!;c  army  or  from  conscripts,  and  now  employed  under  tlie  direc- 

7  tion  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  who  shall  request  a  trans- 

8  fer  to  that  service,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  transferred  from 

9  the  army  to  the  navy  ;  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  isauthor- 
lO  ized  to  enlist  them  in  the  naval  service. 

1  Skc.  2.     That  all  acte  and    parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the 

2  jtrovisions  of  this  act  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 


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